A FURTHER TRIP PROPOSED. 5f3 
ing of all the rest of my work ; but an outflow we did not 
find. 
On returning, on the 13th current, Mr. Stanley’ received 
a letter from the American consul at Zanzibar of 11th June 
last, and Aden telegrams of European news up to the 29th 
April. My mail was dated November, 1870. and would not 
have left the slaves had not Mr. Stanley accidentally seen 
it and seized it for me. What was done by the American 
consul could have been done by the English consul, but 
for the unaccountable propensity to employ slave-traders 
and slaves. 
Seeing no hope of even the third £500, or last half of 
the government £1000, being placed in other hands but 
those of the polite Ludlm, I have taken the liberty of re- 
solving to return a lull month eastward to seeure the dregs 
of my goods from the slaves there, and accept those that 
Mr. Stanley offers, hire freemen at Unyanyembe with them, 
and then return back to the watershed to finish the little 
I have to do. 
In going and returning from Unyanyembe I shall lose 
three or four months. The ancient fountains will require 
eight months more ; but in one year from this time, with 
ordinary health, the geographical work will be done. 
I am presuming that your Lordship will say : “ If worth 
doing at all, it is worth doing well.” All my friends will 
wish mo to make a complete work of the sources of the 
ancient river. In that wish, in spite of the strong desire 
to go home, I join, believing that it is better to do so now 
than afterwards in vain. 
Trusting that your Lordship will kindly make allow- 
ances for what, to some who do not know how hard I have 
toiled to accomplish six-sevenths of the work may appear 
obstinacy, I have, etc. 
David Livingstone, 
Her Majesty’s Consul, Inner Africa. 
P. S.— The mortality by small pox in this region is s« 
